Elections 2024: Meet MA-9 Congressional Candidate Dan Sullivan
MASSACHUSETTS — Early voting begins this week for the upcoming November elections, with many races both national and local for Massachusetts residents to participate in with their votes.Patch has sent candidate questionnaires to candidates across the state in contested races, and will be publishing them on the site through election season.In this Q&A, Patch spoke with Dan Sullivan who is running for a seat in Congress in the 9th Congressional District. Candidate’s Name: Dan SullivanWhat office are you seeking: U.S. House of Representatives District: MA-9Campaign website: https://nursedanforcongress.or...What city or town do you live in: PlymouthParty affiliation: RepublicanEducation: Bachelor’s and Associate’s degrees in Nursing (Regis College), Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Political Science (Marquette University)Occupation: Registered NurseDoes anyone in your family work in politics or government: NoPrevious public office, appointive or elective: NoneAge: 58Why are you seeking this office: Our politics are rapidly divisive. Our politicians are pathologically partisan. Soundbites are more important than sanity. Crazy, chaos, and crisis are preferred to commonsense, compassion, or compromise. It’s win at all costs, which usually means that we the people not only lose but also have to pay for all of it in the end.Our incumbent Representative Bill Keating acts like an absentee landlord. Like an absentee landlord who shows up at the end of each month to collect your rent, Mr. Keating shows up every two years to collect your vote. In more than thirteen years in Congress, Mr. Keating’s only legislative success was passing a bill that renamed a U.S. post office on Cape Cod. Mr. Keating failed to secure full funding for two new Cape Cod Canal bridges even though he voted 100% of the time for Joe Biden’s Build Back Better Bust, the fraudulent American Rescue Plan, and the failed Inflation Reduction Act. Mr. Keating also voted five times against securing our border (HR 137, 957, 1065, 1112, 1210) to support Harris-Biden’s wide open border policy and mass illegal migration. Keating also voted against The Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act (HR 7909), which would have deported illegal migrants convicted of murder and rape. It’s insane. Even more troubling than his full-throated support of Biden’s failures, Mr. Keating has spearheaded Biden’s slow march to WWIII by hand-delivering more than $250 billion to Ukraine. A scroll through Mr. Keating’s X (formerly Twitter) account shows that he has spent much of the past 3 ½ years drumming up war support across Europe even though hundreds of thousands of residents in his district struggle with high inflation, interest rates, and living costs brought on by his support of Biden’s failures and Congress’s gross overspending and waste.What do you believe is the No. 1 issue facing your district, and how do you plan to address it:Affordability and mass illegal migration remain the top two issues for voters.Massachusetts is the second least affordable state to live in the United States. Massachusetts collects the 5th most taxes per person in the country. The annual income needed to afford a median-priced home in the state is $195,000—a 40% increase in just the past 3 ½ years. The median sales price for a single-family home exceeds $950,000, up from $510,000 in 2021. Starter home prices are approaching $1 million. Massachusetts has the highest cost of living—requiring an average household income of nearly $302,000 to live comfortably. Massachusetts has experienced a 1,100% increase in the exodus of young wage earners and high-net income taxpayers finding sanctuary in pro-business, tax-friendly states such as Maine, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Florida, and Texas. The largest segment of people leaving based solely on numbers are aged 26 to 34, and the largest segment of people leaving based on adjusted gross income level are aged 55 to 64.This increasing brain drain and tax-base erosion compounded by uncontrolled mass illegal migration due to Governor Healey’s reckless sanctuary state policy and abuse of Governor Dukakis’ right-to-shelter law makes housing and living less affordable. It’s unsustainable and nonsensical.The solution is lower-cost energy. Energy powers the economy. Increasing domestic energy production will lower the cost of goods and services, inflation, interest rates, and living costs while it will create jobs and opportunities and increase real wages and net incomes. Massachusetts is among the most expensive states in the country, particularly when it comes to housing. What can be done to make Massachusetts communities more financially accessible:Congress must ban asset managers, private equity, and foreign entities like China from buying single-family, duplexes, and multi-family homes and land zoned for residential development. MBTA Communities Zoning Act is not the answer. The law overrides local zoning bylaws and the will and wisdom of duly elected zoning boards to build multiunit housing, which increases availability but does not address affordability. Chapter 40B helps with housing affordability, but hurts local budgets. The added residents strain the school budgets and first-responder services which have triggered budget overruns, layoffs, and Prop 2 ½ petitions, which in turn harms taxpayers, especially the middle class and seniors.We must end Governor Healey’s unsustainable sanctuary state policy and non-sensical abuse of the right-to-shelter law. Since 2010, 1.2 million legal immigrants have established residency in Massachusetts. I work with many of them. They are healthcare professionals who came to Massachusetts to establish careers, raise families, and build homes. They are my bosses, my colleagues, and my friends. They play by the rules and deserve the rewards of their hard work. Since January 2023, Governor Healey and the Massachusetts Democratic Party enticed more than 350,000 illegal migrants to Massachusetts with handouts, freebies, and freerides that have led to maxing out our hospitals and shelters and overtaxing first responders. What accomplishments in your past would you cite as evidence you can handle this job:My accomplishments occur at the hospital bedside where I help patients achieve optimal health outcomes as a medical/surgical registered nurse. They also occur in prison cellblocks where I help incarcerated persons develop healthy coping skills to make better life choices as a correctional registered nurse.The article Elections 2024: Meet MA-9 Congressional Candidate Dan Sullivan appeared first on Barnstable-Hyannis, MA Patch.
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